Crazy Love Gamble-Style

I love that I have this blog.  It is my best way to look back on what's happened, and it keeps all of our memories and photos in order, by date!  I'm so not that organized on my own so this is brilliant! Today, just for fun, we are going to take a look back.  Here are some photos from February of the year I started this blog, 2010:  We had just moved Grandpa into The Springs .  That's also about 40 lbs ago...  Little mini Ava & Colton were loving their new swimming hole.  Little miss already had reached princess status, much to my dismay.  Could she be cuter though, really?? And here's 3 years ago, February 2011:  We were just in the welcoming Norah into our lives stage.  She's about 3 weeks old in these next few pictures.  We liked to torture her from a very early age.  She was a bit skeptical, with good reason.  Tuning us all out worked well for her though.  I'm n...

I few days ago Ava announced "Mom!!! I have a wiggly tooth!!!" Maybe that should of been in all caps, because she was THAT EXCITED.  Her excitement has only grown since that moment, that moment when I doubted her and tried to wiggle it myself, and I still wasn't convinced.  It was barely loose, and I'm not a big fan of kids growing up too soon so I told her NO.  No losing teeth yet.  But she persisted.   This afternoon when I dropped her off at school she was obsessively playing with the tooth with her tongue.  It still didn't seem very loose.  I told her to be patient, it could take a week before it would fall out.   Well by the time I picked her up from school, 3 hours later, that tooth was not at all in the same spot.  I wasn't sure she was going to make it until the next day. Sure enough, while I was at yoga, John sends me this picture.  The girl decided that tooth had to go, so she yanked it out.  A...

 Hi, my name is Norah & I am TWO.  For some reason I just love this picture, I suppose it's cause I'm mean.  : ) We took Ava to Kindergarten roundup the other day.  She will be starting this fall, our little baby is growing up!!  I think she's a little nervous about the change, worrying about missing her current teacher, whom we love, and all her friends, but I know she will do great! These kids are growing up so darn fast! I'm excited to have the Summer off for Ava so we can soak up a little more time together before all the real-school madness begins.  Love these girls.

It's funny when we got Ava her first bike, about  8 months ago, we weren't sure she was ready, or big enough for the little 12" bike. And now it appears she has out grown it.   Here she is on her first bike: (this one we got for $20 on CL)  Norah is eying it already.  And here is the new bike!  Love it! New it would sell for about $200 but we got it for $50 off of Craig's List, we added a basket & streamers for her handle bars will be next.  Yay! Doesn't she just look so big?!??   Our little baby is growing up so fast,  make her STOP!!!!!  

 She might be too little, but that didn't stop her from trying. I had to put her up there,  this bike is huge compared to her.  It's a good thing I put the helmet on her, that would be a long way to fall.  Norah just can't wait to be big enough. But we can wait, our little baby is growing up so fast! Too fast if you ask me!!